How to Use crucially in a Sentence

crucially

adverb
  • Most crucially, the tallest sapele trees emerge high above the canopy.
    — Jerome Lewis, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2020
  • And, of course, most crucially, the queen is ready to return.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 May 2023
  • In our hearts, our minds and – much less crucially – in memes and GIFs.
    — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
  • That reduced the amount of mass that had to go down to the Moon and, crucially, the amount that had to be brought back up.
    — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 4 June 2019
  • And, crucially, would this Eileen survive to tell the tale?
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But at the root of the worries is that the Kremlin’s view of the conflict has crucially changed.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The team also flew drones over 105 of the whales and measured each whale’s size and, crucially, the size of its mouth.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • How states should pay for this defense, crucially, is left up to the states.
    — Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
  • But where is that line and, more crucially, who gets to decide?
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
  • But crucially, each item is more than suitable to wear on a video call from home.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2023
  • And, more crucially, has the michelada craze gotten out of hand?
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The tech was also, crucially, used in service of the story.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
  • And crucially, the warning lights would go off too late to prevent those deaths.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But crucially, the Wuhan study only measured the amount of viral RNA in the air and on surfaces.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Ducharme scored a team-high 19 points that night and, most crucially, the game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds left.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • But, crucially, Mendeleev wasn’t a huge stickler for his own rules.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • There are a great many fronts in the battle for the climate, and this is a crucially important flank.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
  • More crucially, Frank and Kirsten aren’t done being their old selves.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • And, crucially, sludge is not in the best interests of those being nudged (sludged?).
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • In the past two years, 21 countries have signed that pact — but crucially, China and Russia have not and refuse to be bound by its rules.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
  • More crucially, each coach would have to wonder: What if the other coach defects and doesn’t go along with it?
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But crucially, the person who wields the Darksaber must win it in battle to be the rightful owner.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So, crucially, did the price of groceries, long one of the most painful categories for consumers.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • Her first instinct is always to flee, but she’s trained herself to stay calm and, crucially, to stay put.
    — Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This is heavy on the tomatoes, while the crucially important peanuts in this salsa fade in the background.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
  • And Gilead said its own study showed that five days worth of remdesivir worked just as well as 10 days—but, crucially, the study didn’t compare the drug to a placebo.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 1 May 2020
  • As crucially, the action sequences don’t stop the movie dead or make the rest of it seem irrelevant.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And crucially, Arnault helped make the heritage brand hip.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Wingers have overlaps, runs are being made in behind and, crucially, spaces are being opened up in the middle.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But crucially, this sense of anonymity and inscrutability is punctured by the cast.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025

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